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See also: Appendix:Variations of "pina"
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]piña (countable and uncountable, plural piñas)
- cloth woven from pineapple fiber
- (metalworking) A cone of silver amalgam prepared for retorting.
- (metalworking) The residual cone of spongy silver left after the retorting.
Translations
[edit]cloth
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Anagrams
[edit]Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin pīnea.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]piña f (plural piñas)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “piña”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “piña”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “piña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- “piña”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
Spanish
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Macro_pinecone.jpg/250px-Macro_pinecone.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Abacaxi_%28Ananas_comosus%29_2014-07-14_20-40.jpg/250px-Abacaxi_%28Ananas_comosus%29_2014-07-14_20-40.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin pīnea. The sense "pineapple" comes from its resemblance to a pinecone, similarly to English pineapple. The sense "core of the agave plant" comes from its resemblance to a pineapple after the leaves are chopped off for harvesting.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]piña f (plural piñas)
- (botany) pinecone
- (fruit) pineapple
- (Canary Islands, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Honduras, Cuba, Uruguay) punch (blow with the fist)
- Synonym: puñetazo
- (Argentina, colloquial) collision, accident, crash
- (figurative) close-knit group
- 2020 April 10, Los Desayunos de TVE (television production), Pablo Iglesias Turrión (actor):
- […] debatimos de muchas cosas, pero una vez que las cosas se debaten, y una vez que llegamos a un acuerdo, somos una piña
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- the core of the agave plant
- (El Salvador, colloquial) gay male
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “piña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
piña on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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